MonthlyManiFavorites: January 2016

How is 2016 going so far for you all? It's been busy, busy for me. As per my blog, here are my favorite nail designs from this month. Which is your favorite so far?

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Looking forward to the rest of 2016 and doing some amazing Nail Art.

Panda

Happy Friday. Today Kung Fu Panda 3 movie comes out in theaters and I loved watching 1 and 2 so much that I am really looking forward to watching this one too. I couldn't resist but paint my nails with some cute Panda and Bamboo design. Hope you all like it.

Happy Republic Day - INDIA

Today is Indian’s 67th Republic Day and on this occasion I am sharing with you all a nail art inspired by Indian Flag colors. In India, Republic Day honors the date on which the Constitution of India came into force on 26 January 1950. I did this nail art free-hand and used all Butter London polishes - Silly Billy, Cotton Buds and Jaded Jack. You can see my other nail art’s inspired by Indian Flag colors, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY fellow INDIANS

Henna Series: Intricate Patterns

Hello Friend's, here is this year's first henna design. It's an intricate pattern I created for a festival last year. To see the nails featured in the pics below, click HERE. To see more Henna designs on my blog, click HERE.

Hawaiian Flowers

Hello Friend's, if you follow me on Instagram, you know about my recent trip to Hawaii. Before I left on vacation, I wanted to paint my nails with some Hawaiian nail art and this floral design is what I came up with. The polishes that I used to create this nail art are OPI's Non-Stop White, Zoya's Darcy, Sinfulcolors Sunset, Orly's Yellow Submarine and Butter London's Jaded Jack. I got a lot of compliments from strangers on my trip, for this nail art and I had this nail art on my nails for 9 days (which is very unusual for me). Hope you all like this deisgn.

Couldn't help but take picture of my nails with some of my favorite Hawaiian Flowers, white Plumeria and yellow Hibiscus

Floral Fun

Floral nails...I love floral designs and whenever I can't think of any new or innovative nail art, I create some new floral nails and that is exactly what I did here. Polishes used are - Dior's Rouge, OPI Infinite Shine's Non-Stop White, Zoya's Darcy and Formula X's Dark Matter.

Floral Friday

After a lot of Holiday and Winter nails, I wanted something different and decided to go with these. The polishes used are Butter London's Union Jack Black and Cotton Buds, I have also used Chanel's Dragon.

Happy Friday!!!

Peacock Feathers

Hello People. Hope you all are having a wonderful 2016 so far. Today's nail art is an easy one. I created it to match one of my peacock feather Sari's in 2015 and couldn't share it until now. The green polish is the beautiful BLESSING(H) from FunLaquer. You can see its swatch HERE. The peacock feathers are done using water decals from BornPrettyStore. I bought these decals a while ago and didn't get a chance to use them till later last year. To purchase them you can click HERE and get 10% OFF your order by using a special coupon code QANX31. There are 2 types of peacock feathers in this sheet, one is white (see pic 4) and one is the regular green peacock feather (see pic 7). To see my previous peacock feather nails, which I did free-hand by clicking HERE.

Book Review: Winter Stroll

Hi Friend's, today is another book review of mine that I am sharing with you all. As you all know Elin Hilderbrand is one of my favorite author's and I have read each and every book written by her. You can read my previous review of her book The Rumor HERE. Today I am reviewing her latest book Winter Stroll which came out in October 2015. This is the second book in her Winter Series. The first one was Winter Street.

Winter Stroll is a story of Quinn family which gather in Nantucket for the winter stroll weekend. The whole story only takes place over the course of a few days, but we are filled in as to what has transpired over the year, since the end of last book Winter Street. The story is told from all the character's point of views, instead of one, which is really interesting as every family is facing challenges of their own - some major , some minor. The book has a open ending which leads me to believe that next year there will be another book in this series.

Elin Hilderbrand never disappoints me and I can say I am NOT disappointed yet again. I loved reading about Quinn family again this year and I could identify with each of her detailed characters and their storylines, as her writing style is comfortable and inviting. Yet again a entertaining weekend read by the author. I would rate it 5/5.

Tangerine

Tangerine Nails for today. I did these nails free-hand using a dotting tool last year. Polishes used are Butter London's Cotton Buds and Silly Billy. Also used Charlotte Russe's Orange Creme nail polish. Hope you like it :)

NailIt 6th Time

What an AWESOME way to start the NEW Year. Jan/Feb 2016 issue of NailIt magazine features not one but TWO on my nail art designs. The first design is a Teal nail art, I created last year. The other is a Valentines Day nail art which I haven't posted on my blog yet (will be posting it soon as Valentines Day is fast approaching). This is the sixth time my nail art is featured in the NailIt magazine. Last time too, two of my nail art designs were featured in the magazine. To see that click HERE. To see others, click HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. To see my nail art featured on their website, click HERE, HERE and HERE.

Here are the two features in the magazine-

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Sparkle, Shine, Glimmer, Glow

Hello Friends, a very HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.Today's nail art is something that popped in my head out of no-where (Mind of Nail art Blogger, I say) and I had to create it right away. The colors and gold used here is what excited me the most. I love how this simple, shiny, sparkly and glimmer-y this nail art is, perfect to start a New Year with. The polishes I used to create this nail art are - Ulta's Moody Blue, Wet-n-Wild I need a refresh mint, Zoya's Ziv, Sephora by OPI's "Only Gold for Me" glitter and my first Julep polish called Gloria.

Don't you just love Macaroons? My favorite here is Orange flavored Macaroon.